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Lord Byron and the bears beneath Cambridge

In 1904 geologists found fossilised remains of bears in the gravels of Barrington in Cambridgeshire. We look at these bears and at bears in architecture and in Lord Byron’s letters in our Cambridge Alphabet series – now also available as a podcast.

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The language and literature of chastity

In her debut book, Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson (Faculty of English) shows how deeply the Christian virtue of chastity was embedded into the culture of the early Stuart world.  In the struggle between the newly established Church of England and Roman Catholicism, chastity was a powerful construct that was both personal and political.

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The amazing axon adventure

How does the brain make connections, and how does it maintain them? Cambridge neuroscientists and mathematicians are using a variety of techniques to understand how the brain ‘wires up’, and what it might be able to tell us about degeneration in later life.

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Caffeine: Friend or Foe?

Caffeine is one of the only legal psychoactive stimulants but is it good for us? How much can we drink day-to-day and what happens if we exceed the recommended dose? This week, the Naked Scientists are delving into the science to find out.

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